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Google Places image

The first photo returned by Google Places for this hotel in our latest observation. Observed Sep 1. · Thomas Pfeil

West Hollywood · Los Angeles

The Charlie

Claimed

Google rating 4.4 from 136 reviews · Google rank № 4

Index Score

6/100

Barely visible

AI assistants rarely or never name this hotel.

Market rank

№ 9

of 25 scored hotels in West Hollywood · Fairfax

Measured edition on record

The finding

Found on Google. Missing from AI answers.

This hotel holds a first-page Google position, yet assistants rarely name it — № 9 of 25 for AI visibility in this market. When a traveler asks an assistant where to stay here, they are being sent elsewhere.

Google position
№ 4
AI visibility
6/100

The register

Where this hotel appears

The same traveler questions are put to each assistant. A check we have not run yet is recorded as unmeasured, never as an absence.

OpenAI model (API)

Inconsistent

Named in some answers, left out of others.

Google Gemini model (API)

Inconsistent

Named in some answers, left out of others.

In their words

What assistants say

This hotel's measured edition records how often each assistant named it, not verbatim answers.

The market

Where this hotel sits in the market

Index Score, out of 100 — 25 scored hotels in West Hollywood · Fairfax.

Diagnosis

What's holding the score down

  1. 01

    Appears in only part of the tracked Overview answers — the cottage format is not consistently understood as a hotel.

    Google AI Overviews

The remedy

What changes this

Action planClaimed record

What changes this

The current improvement plan for this hotel, ordered by expected impact.

The record

Change over time

6

First published edition — Sep 2026. The next published edition begins the record of movement.

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How this is measured

  • The Index Score measures AI visibility only — how often assistants name this hotel when travelers ask.
  • A missing or failed assistant check is not counted as zero.
  • Rankings are never for sale.
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